Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Municipal bonds came under pressure last week, pushing the asset class into the red for the year. And it hasn't just been the recent rise in longer term Treasury yields driving the selloff. On a...

Much has been made about investors turning on the equity-buying spigot since the beginning of the year. As the chart below reflects, however, investors appear to be allocating as much of their...

At the risk of seeming like I'm putting together another post that is merely grasping at a straw - any straw - to prove the market is going to turn down Real Soon Now, I offer the following:Bonds, as...

Since reaching rally highs near $132 a share back in July, 2012, long-term bonds have been moving steadily lower. Two weeks ago, the ETF iShares 20+ Year Treasuries (TLT) made a quick surge higher,...

First-time jobless claims unexpectedly fell by 7,000 to 340,000 in the week ended March 2, the lowest since the period ended Jan. 19, according to data from the Labor Department in Washington. That's...

On Friday, the governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, announced that the State of Michigan would seek to take over the financial management of the City of Detroit within two weeks. The governor would...